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Charles Haar; Harvard Law professor advised presidents

By J.M. Lawrence

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 29, 2012

Harvard Law School Professor Charles M. Haar advised President John F. Kennedy on urban planning and helped craft President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society initiatives, but among of his most lasting legacies was serving as special master in the pollution lawsuit that led to the cleanup of Boston Harbor. “We know how to fix the problems and the financial mechanisms exist,’’ he once said, “but we lack the political will to merge the two.’’

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